The Adventures of a Part Time Professional Gypsy (and her ginormous teddy thing)

Monday, August 19, 2013

Lucky to be Stabbed

“It hurts less if I stab the right cheek.” The door was
locked. I was stuck in a corner. There was absolutely no escaping this one.

She leaned in with a fiercely terrifying smile and pain shot
through my body…

It took a lot to get me there in the first place. It’s not
like I woke up this morning and thought “hey, I should get stabbed”…. actually
I did wake up this morning and decide exactly that… but it took 6 long weeks of
suffering to get to this morning.

I don’t like doctors. I mean they are alright as people
(Some of my favouritest people are doctor people), but their vocation terrifies
me. I tend to see them more as prophets of doom (and please don’t take this
wrong if you are in fact a doctor – or a prophet of doom, who doesn’t like to
be likened to a doctor, for that matter) about to predict my imminent/impeding
end.

The last time I saw a doctor was not because I woke up one
day in the middle of nowhere [Laos], swollen like a balloon unable to breathe
with what I thought might be a bad case of sporadic elephantitus

So obviously seeing a doctor (despite being sick for 6 solid weeks) was out of the question, but my
friend Jacqui talked me into seeing a nurse at a clinic and well… yes, she
stabbed me (With a needle not a knife before someone reports her). Sister George locked me in a room and stabbed me.

And then she told me to go see a doctor.

There’s people out there who can’t afford to eat or sleep or
wear deodorant and here I am, able to afford being stabbed. I am truly fortunate.

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Tired of mundane routine, of traffic jams, and of shoes; I adopted a flipping massive teddy bear, a backpack and an anything goes philosophy and began life as a Part Time Professional Gypsy (PTPG)... A life where you never know what could possibly happen next.... A life where you never know exactly what it is you're eating... A life where you never know where or when your next shower will be... A life full of stars and goats and smiles and adventures. A life of epicness.